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I've read some info about various products and stuff that you can *occasionally* add to your reef to improve the temporary skimming ability. Martin Moe suggests something like adding albumin or "fish slime coat" products once every week or to and the skimmer will yak it all out and take out a...

My city uses that wonderful stuff, chloramine, to my delight as I watch my fish twitch and flit at the surface. I just moved to this particular place, and didn't know they added ammonia to the water to make chloramine. I did add some ammo-lock to detox the ammonia (was .25 mg/l), so my fish are...

OK, I'm having an epidemic in one of my tanks. I just found the source of the problem (chloramine/ammonia), but can't diagnose the secondary infection that results. I've had well water (good well water) for all my life, and I moved across the state to an apartment in a more suburb area, with...

I finally found a tidal creek near my home in the lowcountry of SC, that is full of wild sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna). I came home with about 20 of them, and the males that I had are about 1.5 inches long, but have little female-looking dorsals. Have they not had time to develop, or do...

Howdy all, I'm a Southeastern US native fish keeper/collector (hobby only, not commercial). Anyone else here collect and keep fish (regardless of what part of the world you are from)? Tell us what you find, how, where, etc.... Right now I'm keeping bluespotted sunfish, mummichog (a killie)...

Howdy all, this is Mako from Aquariacentral if anyone reconizes me. I have a 55g planted tank (SC native fish/plants) that tends to build up a lot of debris, not to mention that some of the fish are messy and stir the bottom when excited. My HOT Magnum and AC 300 do what they can, but I get...